Sentence examples for rail miles from inspiring English sources

The 400 rail miles between the two capitals will be fought over by the two big Anglo-Scottish train operators: Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Trains will take on East Coast Trains.

He said he would more than double the number of metro rail miles across 13 cities; promised to create a ministry of public security to better combat organized crime and drug trafficking; and said he would pressure Bolivia to crack down on drug cartels that are sending cocaine across Brazil's border.

Scottish travellers have far more choice, with sleepers stopping at such stations as Garelochhead, Crianlarich and Bridge of Orchy....and the greatest journeys on earth St Petersburg-Moscow These days you can choose from any of 30 daily flights each way between the former and current Russian capitals, or high-speed trains that cover the 400 rail miles in four hours.

The advent of a carton recycling facility in the UK cuts road and rail miles to recycling plants in Europe, and gives councils with no-export policies the ability to recycle cartons rather than sending them to energy-from-waste plants or landfill.

They demonstrated that the probability of driving to work decreases when population centrality and rail miles are higher and road density is lower.

In Galesburg, Illinois, which is 162 rail miles from Chicago, the local high school named all its athletic teams the "Galesburg Silver Streaks" in honor of the train.

Then again, it may be considerably less expensive than other transportation alternatives such as high-speed rail or miles upon miles of more and wider highways.

Larry Rohter (NYT) CANADA: GARBAGE ODYSSEY -- Toronto is to ship its garbage by rail 400 miles north to an abandoned mine.

Another wrote, "I did an out-and-back run on a rail trail: 5.25 miles out and 5.02 miles back.

But back in 2009, Network Rail told me: "Mile for mile it is the most expensive piece of railway in the UK".

Germany's 21,000-mile rail network now boasts about 800 miles of high-speed track, averaging 150mph.